What is Groundwork

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What is Groundwork?

• A leading environmental regeneration
• organisation
• A federation of 50 local Trusts in
• England, Wales and Northern Ireland
• A partnership between the public, private
• and voluntary sectors

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Public sector
Partnership
Private sector
Voluntary sector
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What do we do?

• Work through partnership to bring about
• social, economic and environmental
  regeneration
• Use local environmental action to engage
• and motivate people to improve their quality
  
• of life
• Deliver sustainable development in deprived
• and disadvantaged neighbourhoods

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Environment
Sustainable development
Society
Economy
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The strategy

• Our purpose
• To build sustainable communities through joint
  environmental action
• PEOPLE
• PLACES
• PROSPERITY

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Groundworks Vision

• Groundwork's vision is of a society of
  sustainable communities,communities which are
  vibrant, healthy and safe, which respect the
  local and global environment and where
  individuals and enterprise prosper.

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Groundwork Manchester, Salford
TraffordMoorside Garden

• Back to back housing
• Fly tipping
• Graffiti
• Neglected space
• Anti-social behaviour

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Groundwork Oldham RochdaleGreening Glodwick

• Scene of Summer 2001 riots
• A community group was formed to oversee
  environmental issues, including fly tipping,
  community safety, joy-riding, graffiti, drug
  dealing poor public space
• You could furnish your house from this rubbish
• 80 of residents are from BME communities

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Achievements

• Alley-gating
• Improved public space e.g. Jammia Gardens
• Multi purpose kick pitch
• Bolton Street
• Clean up events
• Partnership working
• Community Capacity building

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Groundwork BirminghamStreet Champions

• To promote a clean green, safe local area by
  encouraging pride respect amongst residents for
  local streets public spaces
• To be the eyes and ears of community
• To act as a referral link for residents to
  services such as waste management, police, public
  health

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Groundwork Blackburn

• Participation in the Sustainable Development
  Qualification
• Links with Sure Start
• Wild Days Out-
• a chance to take nothing but photos and leave
  nothing but footprints

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Lessons Learnt

• Where people are
• Given the opportunity everybody is interested in
  the environment
• There are different perspectives on what we all
  share
• Learning sustainability is a lifelong process